Pre-Corona Political Updates and Celebrities in Quarantine
Different Things Can Be Sad
English - July 10, 2020 20:27 - 47 minutes - 39.1 MB - ★★★★ - 3 ratingsPolitics News News Commentary Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Welcome to the second half of 2020! Here's hoping act two has more happiness in store for us than the first did, hey? This month we're returning to our regular Politics and Pop Culture format, as well as providing you with a BLM focused Reading, Watching and Listening. Bon app the teeth!
Reading
*Got some bookshop.org links for ya, not affiliate links!
If Beale Street Could Talk by James Baldwin: https://bookshop.org/books/if-beale-street-could-talk-9780307275936/9780307275936
Red at the Bone by Jaqueline Woodson: https://bookshop.org/books/red-at-the-bone/9780525535270
Such A Fun Age by Kiley Reid: https://bookshop.org/books/such-a-fun-age/9780525541905
The Opposite of Always by Justin A. Reynolds: https://bookshop.org/books/opposite-of-always/9780062748379
Watching
Da 5 Bloods on Netflix
Do the Right Thing
Malcolm X
13th on Netflix
Listening
1619 from The New York Times
Code Switch from NPR
Punisher by Phoebe Bridgers
Politics
Wet’suwet’en
https://globalnews.ca/news/6936521/wetsuweten-draft-agreement-details/
https://thepostmillennial.com/alberta-energy-minister-says
https://foreignpolicy.com/2020/04/20/gas-pipeline-wetsuweten-coronavirus-pandemic-indigenous-sovereignty-canada-oil/
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/wet-suwet-en-territory-rcmp-armed-officers-1.5633987?cmp=rss
Hong Kong
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/27/world/canada/huawei-extradition-meng-wanzhou.html
https://www.forbes.com/sites/lisettevoytko/2020/05/27/hong-kong-is-no-longer-politically-autonomous-from-china-pompeo-says/#3a1adf3b30fb
https://hongkongfp.com/2020/05/28/video-hong-kong-police-conduct-mass-arrests-in-mong-kok-as-clashes-continue-into-night/
Pop Culture
Celebrities being unrelatable online: https://www.insider.com/celebrities-quarantine-social-media-distancing-have-been-completely-unrelatable-in-2020-4#ellen-degeneres-comparing-being-in-quarantine-to-being-in-jail-21
Imagine video:https://slate.com/culture/2020/03/celebrities-singing-imagine-video-explained.html
I Take Responsibility video: https://thenewdaily.com.au/entertainment/celebrity/2020/06/12/i-take-responsibility-video/
'Celebrity Culture Is Burning', New York Times: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/30/arts/virus-celebrities.html
'Celebrity Quarantine Posts Are Inflaming Tensions Between The Haves and Have Nots', Vox: https://www.vox.com/the-highlight/2020/4/22/21228696/celebrity-quarantine-coronavirus-influencer-instagram-ellen-degeneres-arielle-charnas-class-wealth
Wear A Damn Mask challenge: https://www.harpersbazaar.com/celebrity/latest/a33023419/celebrity-wear-a-damn-mask-challenge